Assistant site manager Mark Bogner (left) and site manager Rick Seibert (right) clear out some young trees with chainsaws for preservation of the other vegetation Thursday afternoon at Hennepin-Hopper Lakes in Hennepin during their daily routine maintenance of the park grounds.

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Rick Seibert, who has worked as the Hennepin-Hopper site manager since 2002, said he has seen a tremendous change in the wildlife at the wetlands since he first began there.
"You never really would have dreamed that you'd see this in Illinois," he said.